Justin Amash's absolutely amazing victory speech — Politicians who win campaigns, no matter how dirty, will almost always kiss and make up with their political opponents in their election-night speeches. — Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), of course, is not your average politician.

America's Fed Up: Obama Approval Rating Hits New Low — Yet because this discontent differs - among Democrats, Republicans, and independents - Hart cautions that Americans still aren't likely to be storming the polls on Election Day in November. — “We're unhappy, but we aren't coalescing around an issue,” he said.

Wikipedia refuses to delete photo as ‘monkey owns it’ — Wikimedia, the non-profit organisation behind Wikipedia, has refused a photographer's repeated requests to stop distributing his most famous shot for free - because a monkey pressed the shutter button and should own the copyright

McDaniel staffer drawn into Fielder controversy (UPDATE) — Stephen Fielder, the self-proclaimed pastor from Meridian, says a member of Chris McDaniel's campaign paid him $2,000 to give an interview in which he accused a Thad Cochran campaign staffer of asking him to pay people to vote for the GOP incumbent.

A Friend Flees the Horror of ISIS — A humanitarian crisis that could turn into genocide is taking place right now in the mountains of northwestern Iraq. It hasn't made the front page, because the place and the people are obscure, and there's a lot of other horrible news to compete with.

Michelle Obama: ‘Women are smarter than men’ — First Lady Michelle Obama engaged in a battle of the sexes Wednesday, claiming that women are more intelligent than their male counterparts. — “We can't waste the spotlight. Time is short. Change is needed.

$619 billion missed from federal transparency site — WASHINGTON — A government website intended to make federal spending more transparent was missing at least $619 billion from 302 federal programs, a government audit has found. — And the data that does exist is wildly inaccurate …

(CNN) — U.S. intelligence agencies fear Edward Snowden has achieved celebrity as a leaker and could be inspiring others to disclose classified national security information. — One indication of that may be in new documents published this week by the Intercept, the website begun by Glenn Greenwald, who published Snowden's leaks.

NATO says Russia could be poised to invade Ukraine — (Reuters) - Russia has amassed around 20,000 combat-ready troops on Ukraine's eastern border and could use the pretext of a humanitarian or peace-keeping mission to invade, NATO said on Wednesday. — Stating the conflict in Ukraine …

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